pintado
Americannoun
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pintados,
plural
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pintadoes
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of pintado
1595–1605; < Portuguese, past participle of pintar to paint < Vulgar Latin *pinctus painted. See pinta
Example Sentences
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Many hundreds of the white-rumped mhorr browsed on it undisturbed, and the pintado and the partridge seemed to be without end.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
The ship was now surrounded by albatrosses, penguins, and pintado birds.
From Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures by William H. C. Groome
From the middle downward they wear a pintado of silk, trailing upon the ground, in colour as they best like.
From Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World by Francis Pretty
The third sort, which is the true pintado, or painted-bird, is curiously spotted white and black.
From A Voyage to New Holland by William Dampier
The pintado is a southern bird, and of that temperate zone; for I never saw of them much to the northward of 30 degrees south.
From A Voyage to New Holland by William Dampier
These were interspersed with rich yellow grass, swarming with antelope, hares, bustard, and florikin; whilst fine cedar-like camel-thorns stretched their long arms over troops of pintadoes, coveys of partridges, and spur-fowl.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
The 26th of April we got into the trade wind; and on the 10th May, being by estimation 620 leagues west of the Cape of Good Hope, we saw many pintadoes, mangareludas, and other fowls.
We daily saw some rock-weeds, seals, Port Egmont hens, albatrosses, pintadoes, and other peterels.
From A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, Volume 1 by James Cook
Some tropic birds were seen this morning but as yet neither albatrosses nor pintadoes had made their appearance.
From Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by Phillip Parker King
Forbes Watson classifies the calicoes as being white, bleached and unbleached, striped, &c., printed chintzes, or pintadoes.
From Needlework As Art by Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess Alford
He believes that in the South there are many more pintados, whose disease has been wrongly diagnosed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Within five or six days we had unladen her of 950 packs of calicoes and pintados, or chintzes, besides many packages of other merchandise.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr
Cassedys nill, alleias, broad pintados, with spotted, striped, and checquered stuffs, are most in request, and sell at good profit.
Also penguins, gulls, pintados spotted with black and white, alcatrasses, which are grey with black pinions, shags or cormorants at the island in great abundance, and another like a moor-hen.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr
Vast numbers of pintados were about, also some albatrosses, the first that had made their appearance for several weeks back.
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